Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 19 IS - 1 T2 - Shakespeare (British Shakespeare Association) SP - 80-92 ID - bbbo485 T1 - "Shakespeare for Everyone? History, Dramaturgy, and the Black Flesh as Prop in Transracial Shakespeare"  AU - Chapman, Matthieu PY - 2023 DA - 2026 DO - 10.1080/17450918.2023.2183091 LA - English AB - Describes performing as "Othello's man," a role created with a black man who "could appear as black in the play, but ... could not be black in the play," that is, did not warn Othello about Iago's perfidiousness. Contends that, all too often, "the inanimate prop of black flesh" "cannot perform for itself, but rather performs visions of blackness designed to comfort white audiences." English summary, 80. ER -